2.02.2007

I hate to step on Biffle's post--because I am quite fond of "ramcack"--but I wanted to share the news that we have a puppy! We've been talking about getting a puppy for months now, and since Biffle's spending a lot of time around the house these days, it seemed that the time was right. She's a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix--and let me assure you all right now that Rottweilers are very nice dogs. Their bad reputation is unwarranted. And they have big, drooly heads, which is a plus.

We don't have a name for her yet. Biffle's been toying with the unprecedented (and I think highly inappropriate) move of stealing Trey and Megan's cat's name, Blooty. He's even called her Blooty a couple of times. But I promise you that is not her name.

Since we're on the subject of Trey, when I called him to tell him the news, his immediate question was, "What happened to Baxter?" In case any of the rest of you are wondering the same thing, let me assure you that Baxter is just fine. She's actually not as annoyed with the new puppy as she might have been, since the puppy's very low key so far. Here they are, meeting each other:

wow. i must not know my dogs too well. i liked the other puppy. Alison liked this one.

sarah: anyway, i beg to differ. this puppy is indeed cute,but corgi puppies have about the highest wad factor i've ever seen.

...what? what's "wad factor" you ask? Similar to BEF (beady eye factor) although not as controversial, it's the index that states how hard it is not to start drooling, wad those little bastards into a ball, and then thrown them at something. On the scale of wadness, corgi puppies are the diamonds, the adamantium, the warp drive, baby.

as a side note: many people suffer from a disability that makes them think that wad factor sounds like a form of abuse. If any of you out there are like that, well, it's okay. There's still hope for you.

When Dea allows me to get a dog I am going to name it Rufus King in honor of William Rufus Devane King, the only Alabamian to have been elected vice president. Of course, he only served in that office for 45 days before he died of tubercolis.

I do like the idea of keeping with our one-dog trend of naming dogs after the places they're from. But rather than Charlie, which I do think is cute, we've gone with a different alternative, which Biffle's latest post will tell you about.

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Alison Piepmeier was a professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, and much, much more. When she wasn't working to bring down the patriarchy, she wrote here and elsewhere about feminist disability studies, Zines, her ugly car, and an eclectic range of topics. She also wrote about the brain tumor that eventually caused her death on August 12, 2016, at the age of 43.
Twitter: @alisonpiepmeier